Slide for ribbon watch guards



C. H; SHERMAN.

SLIDE FOR RIBBON WATCH GUARDS.

APPUCATION EILED JULY 11. 1920.

- 1,4.173575. Patented May 30,1922.

CHARLES H. SHERMAN, OF NORTH ATTLEBOPJO, MASSACHUSETTS.

SLIDE FOR RIBBON WATCH GUARDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30,1922.

Application filed July 17; 1920. Serial No. 397,023.

T 0 aZZw/zom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SHERMAN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at 'North Attleboro, in the countyof Bristol,

' to hold the ribbon watch-guard in place close against the garments to prevent it from catching in objects and to provide for its more convenient manipulation in handling the watch or other article attached to its end.

The preferred embodiment of my invention is set forth in the following specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate like parts. In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view showing my improved slide applied to a ribbon watch-guard and illustrating the manner in which it clasps to the waistcoat of the wearer;

Fig. 2, an edge view of the slide;

Fig. 3, a rear view of the same;

Fig. 4:, an edge View of the slide sh'owlng a modified form of hook or clasp at its end; and I Fig. 5, a view showing the development of the blank from which the slide is constructed.

In acordance with a prevailing mode or fashion watches and other articles of jewelry are worn on ribbon watch-guards or Waldemars they are called, and usually the rib bon is ornamented by a slide of precious metal to relieve the plainness and add style to the article. Such slides are constructed from stampings, piercedwith slots at the ends to adapt the ribbon to be inserted therethrough, and in some cases the front of the slide is embellished with engraving or other ornamentation.

In Fig. 1 I have illustrated such a form of watch-guard or Waldemar comprising the ribbon 2 which is stretchedacross the waist coat 'W of the wearer with the slide 3 at its center.

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I-Ieret'ofore it has been the usual custom to allow the ribbon 2 to hang loosely between the two opposite pockets of the waistcoat, al-

though in some instances the ribbon is slipped through a button-hole in the garment. When the ribbon hangs free from the pockets it is liable to become twisted and misplaced, and frequently catches in other objects. For this reason I have. found it desirable to provide some means for holding the ribbon in its proper place close against the garments and for retaining its slide 3 in central position thereon. For this purpose I provide a clasp or hook 5 on the back of the slide 3, see Figs. 2 and 3, which is adapted to be hooked under the edge of the waistcoat W, shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The hook or olasp5 is preferably made in- 7 tegral with the main portion of the slideB and as a convenient method of manufacture I form it from a flat blank 6 shown in Fig. 5. The slide portion 3 of the blank maybe of any preferred outline or contour and as herein shown is substantially oblong in shape and pierced at its ends with lateral slits 7 through which the ribbon 2 is inserted. EX- tending from one end of the main portion of the blank 6 is a spear-shaped tab 8 which is pierced at its center to provide the marginal strips 9. The tab for the hook 5 may be of any other suitable shape and left without piercing if desired, although I preferably out it away at the center to save metal and improve the artistic appearance of the hook.

The main portion of the slide 3 may be flat or, in accordance with the preferred design herein shown, its front may be arched or Y crowned outwardly as illustrated in Fig. 2.

To form the hook 5 on the back of the slide 8 i In other cases the hook 5 may be made substantially straight'to overlie the back of the slide 3 in parallel relation thereto as shown in Fig. 4.

In applying my improved slide to use the ribbon 2 is inserted through the slits 7 atits ends and drawn through the slide to locate it in substantially mid position thereon;

Suitable snap-hooks or spring-rings are secured to the ends of the ribbon to provide for attaching it to the vratch or other ornament, and When these latter are placed in the pockets of the Wearers Waistcoat W the ribbon will be drawn across its front as shown in Fig. 1. Now to hold the ribbon in this position the hook 5 on the slide 3 is inserted under the edge or" the Waistcoat W as inclicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The hook 5 is thus clamped to the Waistcoat to retain. the slide in central position, While also serving to hold the ribbon 2 flat against the garment to prevent it from getting out of place becoming twisted or catching in objects.

It Will thus be seen that my improvement provides for a neat-er and more convenient method ofwearing the ribbon Watch-guard or Waldemar while holding its slide in central position and preventing it from turning over or falling away from the front of the Waistcoat.

lVithout limiting myself to the exact embodiment herein shown and described What I claim is:

An improved slide for ribbon Watcl guards comprising an ornamental panel having slits at its ends forming lateral crossbars to adapt the ribbon to be passed over said bars through the slits and in back of.

the panel, one of said cross-bars being provided with a clasp-member extending there from and bent around to overlie the back of the panel in spaced relation to the ribbon passing thereacross, said clasp being adapted for insertion under the edge of the Wearers waistcoat or other garment to hold the slide and ribbon flat thereagainst While allowing;

for the adjustment of the ribbon through the slide.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

CHARLES H. SHERMAN. 

